Education Quotes

There are five issues that make a fist of a hand that can knock America out cold. They're lack of jobs, obesity, diabetes, homelessness, and lack of good education.

will.i.am

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Malcolm Forbes

Education, n.: That which discloses the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

Ambrose Bierce

A fondness for reading, properly directed, must be an education in itself.

Jane Austen

When we are young, we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry, Politics, Art, in the hope that, in the course of a few years, we shall have condensed into our encyclopaedia the net value of all the theories at which the world has yet arrived. But year after year our tables get no completeness, and at last we discover that our curve is a parabola, whose arcs will never meet.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Freedom can occur only through education.

Friedrich Schiller

Education is hanging around until you've caught on.

Robert Frost

I always felt that I came up short in the education department, but I've come to the conclusion that we all get an education.

Michael J. Fox

All these people talk so eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values. Well, as an old poop I can remember back to when we had those old-fashioned values, and I say let's get back to the good old-fashioned First Amendment of the good old-fashioned Constitution of the United States -- and to hell with the censors! Give me knowledge or give me death!

Kurt Vonnegut

Better spend an extra hundred or two on your son's education, than leave it him in your will.

George Eliot

Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

George Will

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Lee Iacocca

I think if you have to pay for your education, you worry very seriously about you're going to do when you've got your degree.

James Dyson

The tax which will be paid for the purpose of education is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings, priests and nobles who will rise up among us if we leave the people in ignorance

Thomas Jefferson

Most Hispanics are concerned with the same issues other Americans are - the economy, jobs, education. Similar to Main Street America.

Henry Bonilla

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

Plato

My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.

George Washington

The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Cag

But I didn't really enjoy my secondary education that much, probably because I am a very physical person and don't enjoy sitting at a desk all day. I just dragged myself through GCSE and A Levels, so it suited me very much to go on to drama school, which was very active.

Amanda Burton

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

Plato